Meg Saligman was born in Olean, New York in 1965.  There she experimented with many kid friendly medias including finger paint, the etch-a-sketch, and play dough.  She painted her first mural in 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Since then her talents have blossomed into an internationally recognized mural career. Meg has created Philadelphia’s landmark “Common Threads” at Broad and Spring Garden Streets.  Other well known works include “Philadelphia Muses” on 13^th and Locust Streets, a multimedia “Theatre of Life” on Broad and Lombard Streets and the new “Passing Through” wall that can be seen looming over the Schuylkill Expressway.  Saligman’s work can be seen in both the national and international arena of public Art.  She has created work from a fresco in Mexico City to the largest publicly funded project in the United States in Shreveport, Louisiana. 

Her work has been influential from the very beginning.   In Philadelphia, she was the first artist to include community members in the actual mural itself.  One of Saligman’s greatest innovations was that she devised a system where people from communities could easily paint the murals themselves.  This technique has enabled entire cities and even prison communities to participate in the public art making process. Saligman was the first artist to use a computer in the designing of murals here in Philadelphia. Her influence continues as she has developed many computer techniques that are widely used in the designing process. She currently is developing digital works incorporating LED and moving images. 

Meg’s work has been celebrated nationally.  In 2006, Saligman was featured as one of ten muralists from throughout the country who has been influential in the past decade in the national publication, Public Art Review.  She has received numerous awards that include honors from The National Endowment of the Arts, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Philadelphia’s Leeway Foundation.

Meg Saligman was born in Olean, New York in 1965.  There she experimented with many kid friendly medias including finger paint, the etch-a-sketch, and play dough.  She painted her first mural in 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Since then her talents have blossomed into an internationally recognized mural career. Meg has created Philadelphia’s landmark “Common Threads” at Broad and Spring Garden Streets.  Other well known works include “Philadelphia Muses” on 13^th and Locust Streets, a multimedia “Theatre of Life” on Broad and Lombard Streets and the new “Passing Through” wall that can be seen looming over the Schuylkill Expressway.  Saligman’s work can be seen in both the national and international arena of public Art.  She has created work from a fresco in Mexico City to the largest publicly funded project in the United States in Shreveport, Louisiana. 

Her work has been influential from the very beginning.   In Philadelphia, she was the first artist to include community members in the actual mural itself.  One of Saligman’s greatest innovations was that she devised a system where people from communities could easily paint the murals themselves.  This technique has enabled entire cities and even prison communities to participate in the public art making process. Saligman was the first artist to use a computer in the designing of murals here in Philadelphia. Her influence continues as she has developed many computer techniques that are widely used in the designing process. She currently is developing digital works incorporating LED and moving images. 

Meg’s work has been celebrated nationally.  In 2006, Saligman was featured as one of ten muralists from throughout the country who has been influential in the past decade in the national publication, Public Art Review.  She has received numerous awards that include honors from The National Endowment of the Arts, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Philadelphia’s Leeway Foundation.